Quote#Friendship
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls
Quote byJohn Donne · 1572–1631
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Verse Letter to Sir Henry Wotton, written before April 1598, line 1.
English (original)
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; For, thus friends absent speak.
— John Donne
More from John Donne
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant, The only harmless great thing.
So, of a lone unhaunted place possess’d, Did this soul’s second inn, built by the guest, This living buried man, this quiet mandrake, rest.
I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
And seeing the snail, which everywhere doth roam, Carrying his own house still, still is at home, Follow (for he is easy paced) this snail, Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy gaol.
Great Destiny, the commissary of God.
Friends are ourselves.